It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.

The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.